Yet more progress on pushing forward on ice palace book

[pegkerr]

Got a voice mail back from the St. Paul Festival and Heritage Foundation (alas, I never seem to be able to talk with the people there live; we are always exchanging voice mails). My humble request to visit the ice palace site as it is being built has been passed on to the construction company Kraus Anderson, and discussed with the project manager (Yay!). The answer is "We don't know yet, and we won't know until insurance is finalized, but we'll get back to you."

But that is hopeful anyway. At least now Kraus Anderson knows about me.

And even if worst comes to worst and I'm not allowed on site while it's built, they do plan to let the public actually enter the ice palace after it is completed. In fact, it will be the first ice palace since 1941 that the public is being allowed inside.

Keep sending all your wishes to Minnesota for cold weather!

Comments

[oracne.livejournal.com]

Progress!

I need to get off my duff and pay another call to the Pennsylvania Historical Society soon. Maybe your progress will motivate me.

[aome.livejournal.com]

Is there such a thing as a non-cold Minnesota winter?

[magentamn.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, sometimes it stays above zero F all winter ;-)

For the ice palace to be built and stay intact, it needs to be either *well* below freezing for several weeks, or below freezing and very, very cloudy. I hope it's just very cold and sunny. The weeks and weeks of gray get very depressing. But if it's in the twenties, and sunny, ice will melt. Even ice shaped into a palace.

Peg, maybe that's another tension - not just between winter and summer, cold and heat, but clouds and sun.